Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

He might be tall enough to see into tomorrow, but he hadn’t looked there in a long, long time. He’d forgotten how bright it was. So bright he could hardly stand it.

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• In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Eye

• Be who you are and be that well.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • You
  • Well
  • Who

• Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Why
  • She
  • Bad

• In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • You
  • Phone
  • Phone Call

• Never put a sock in a toaster.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Funny
  • Never
  • Sock

• Custom adapts itself to expediency.

  

  Tacitus
  • Custom
  • Itself
  • Expediency

• Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Achieve
  • Results
  • Economic

• The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations – rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Humans
  • Genes
  • Globe

• I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Personality

• Maybe when my kids are grown up, I can go back to Broadway. It would be great someday, I suppose.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Up
  • Great
  • Kids

• Most people don't want to get married. Being married, that's a responsibility.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • People
  • Want
  • Responsibility

• The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • Today
  • Taxes
  • Promises

• The relationship between France and its 'foreign' players - blacks and North African Arabs - has always been troubled, particularly with Algerians.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Relationship
  • Always
  • France

• I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • World
  • Men
  • Fashion

• 'I think that I will not answer that question,' he said at last. 'I would create as many false images as there were ears to hear me.''Half as many,' Clissum pointed out delicately.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Question

• 'Poly' means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.

  

  Kinky Friedman

• Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • People
  • Time
  • Patriotic

• There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.

  

  Charles Hermite
  • World
  • Mind
  • Reality

• The British actors I've met and worked with have all been very supportive of each other.

  

  Douglas Booth

• I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.

  

  Mark Wahlberg
  • Up
  • Good
  • God

• I didn't feel like I had a home until I moved to El Paso.

  

  Khalid
  • Home

• Love is a rock against the wind. Not soft like silk and lace.

  

  Etheridge Knight
  • Love
  • Wind
  • Lace

• He might be tall enough to see into tomorrow, but he hadn’t looked there in a long, long time. He’d forgotten how bright it was. So bright he could hardly stand it.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Long
  • Enough
  • Tomorrow